Made in Hollywood

The third weekend of "Iron Man" North American release finally ushered in a movie that Duke has impressed, "Charlotte" produced by Paramount Pictures and dubbed by Oscar-winning actress Julia Roberts who just gave birth to twins special network".

The film is adapted from the famous book "Charlotte's Web" by the great American writer E.B. White. It is a story about friendship and suffering.

This is a movie aimed at audiences under the age of seventeen, and there is a huge overlap with the audience of Iron Man.

There is no doubt that the style of "Iron Man" tends to be joyful, and the PG-13 rating is enough to ensure that teenagers can enter the theater to watch without hindrance.

"Charlotte's Web" is well-received by audiences, with Julia Roberts' vocals and audience-loving child star Dakota Fanning, but that's not enough to guarantee that it will beat Iron Man .

This film, which cost as much as $85 million to make, landed in North America with 3,566 theaters. It did not earn at least $25 million at the box office on the first three days as expected by the producer, and only earned $11.12 million, which is far worse than Pie. Expected by Ramon Films.

In contrast, "Iron Man", which has entered its third weekend of screening, has far too bright box office data.

The film's weekend box office only dropped by 40% compared with last weekend, and it won 35.1 million US dollars in three days, easily achieving the third consecutive top spot in the North American box office chart.

In addition to the $17.26 million received in the previous four working days, the total North American box office of "Iron Man" reached $295.35 million, and the North American box office breakthrough of $300 million is just around the corner.

At the same time, the film landed in more overseas markets, although the overall performance of the overseas box office was not as strong as that in North America due to Tony Stark's popularity and other reasons, but after two weekends of overseas release. The overseas box office has also accumulated as much as 175.6 million US dollars.

When "Iron Man" opened in North America for three weeks, the film's global box office totaled as high as 470.95 million US dollars!

Not to mention that the screening is far from over, just this number is enough for Marvel Studios to start the later plans.

As we all know, the box office only accounts for a portion of Hollywood movie revenue, and in superhero movies. The revenue ratio of the box office is even smaller. The profit points of "Iron Man" are too many, only comics. Because of the popularity and attention brought by the movie, after entering May, Marvel Comics' "Iron Man" Xia manga has sold millions of copies, with sales reaching nearly 20 million US dollars.

As for dolls, dolls, stationery and other traditional peripheral products. The sales are equally astonishing. According to the statistics that have been collected, the sales of various peripheral products in North America easily exceeded 100 million US dollars, and movie fans and comic fans wearing Iron Man masks can basically be seen all over the United States.

The weekday box office for "Iron Man" kicked off sharply next week as the new week started. North America only reported $3.85 million on Monday, and on Tuesday, the film officially broke the $300 million mark at the North American box office.

This is also Hollywood's first North American film in 2006 to exceed $300 million at the box office.

After "Hurricane Rescue" and "Batman: War Hour", the two North American box office films stayed at 200 million+. Duke is back in the $300 million club again.

However, this is the summer season. Even though most films dodged Duke and Iron Man, that doesn't mean the film can continue to be hot.

The popcorn nature of the film is one thing; strong new releases over the weekend are another.

Produced and distributed by Sony Columbia Pictures, directed by Ron Howard, starring Tom Hanks, the film of the same name adapted from the novel "The Da Vinci Code", which once caused a sensation and huge controversy in North America, is about to land on the big screen. Officially released in North America.

Duke also accepted Tom Hanks' invitation to attend the film's North American premiere in Los Angeles.

"Hello, Tom."

Walking to the premiere theater, Duke hugged Tom Hanks, who came to greet him, and joked deliberately, "You're much fatter than you look in the movie."

"No way." Tom Hanks showed some helplessness, "I've reached the age of getting fat."

In recent years, Tom Hanks has begun to transform behind the scenes, participating in the investment and production of "Band of Brothers", and the film company under his name also has such successful works as "My Big Greek Wedding" with small investment and large output. All are extremely smooth, but a wide heart will inevitably lead to body fat.

Greeting Tom Hanks and Ron Howard, a tall young woman came over, "Hi Duke, long time no see."

"Hello, Dallas." Duke gave her an outstretched hand.

This woman has long natural red hair and emerald green eyes, and a delicate face that resembles Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco.

Although they were not familiar with each other, they had seen each other on many occasions, and Duke had a few words with her.

"I just finished shooting Spider-Man 3," she said.

Duke asked with interest, "Which character are you playing?"

"Gwen Stacy, Peter Parker's first girlfriend in the comics." She shrugged, "However, Sam Raimi told me that he was going to quit the series, and my role basically didn't continue. Maybe I'm going to be unemployed again."

"Are you missing a role, Dallas?" Duke shook his head and smiled.

If Ron Howard's daughter would lack roles, then Hollywood really isn't Hollywood.

This woman is called Bryce Howard, born in a real acting family, his father is Oscar best director Ron Howard, his mother is an actor, and his uncle is the famous Clint Eastwood!

Although he is not famous now, Duke is very clear that his image is more liked by American audiences, his acting skills are not particularly bad, and with the support of various resources such as family, it will not take too long, Bryce Howard will Be among the ranks of Hollywood's hottest stars.

Even, she doesn't need to put in too much effort.

Of course, this is also a very smart woman, as can be seen from the fact that she has always been by Duke's side in place of her father Ron Howard.

Duke also remembers that after the big sale of "Jurassic World", a conversation between her and producer Spielberg was circulated, and she took the other side of Spielberg as a junior and in a mocking tone. Come out - if "Jurassic World" is a big hit, it's because you have a good eye. If you hit the street, you are still a master who never misses, and the director will simply disappear from the world.

As the popularity of "Iron Man" gradually dissipated, the competition between the two films was not very obvious. Duke had read the original book, but he had not seen the Tom Hanks movie, which had extremely poor reviews and audience reputation. Went to the cinema and chatted a little with Bryce Howard. After the film started, the energy shifted to the big screen.

"The Da Vinci Code" was written by American writer Dan Brown. It broke the sales record of American novels with 7.5 million copies, and its cumulative global sales exceeded 65 million copies, ranking first on the "New York Times" bestseller list. At 76 weeks, it was translated into 42 languages ​​and became the highest-grossing American novel of all time, rivaling even the wildly popular British bestsellers "Harry Potter" in sales.

These are enough to ensure that the film has enough attention and audience base.

In fact, Ron Howard's film basically follows the original.

Like the original, the film offers a "subversive" interpretation of Leonardo's artworks such as "Mona Lisa," "Self-Portrait by Leonardo," and "The Last Supper."

First, through the mouths of various characters, he questioned the gender of the characters in "Mona Lisa", and then pointed out that Mona Lisa was actually Leonardo da Vinci himself, and the portrait of the painter in "Self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci" was actually The upper is also a "hermaphrodite".

These two paintings are no longer simply independent existences, but two interrelated individuals with mutual referential significance. The most interesting is the commentary on "The Last Supper", not to mention that people traditionally think that the paintings are all The thirteen men were said to be twelve men and one woman. Even Jesus Christ, who had always worshipped the world without eating fireworks, was reduced from "God" to "Man", and claimed that he was married, left offspring.

And Jesus' wife, Mary Magdalene, whom he redeemed.

These unequivocal interpretations are undoubtedly a challenge, tampering and subversion of history and traditional culture, and to some extent, they have played a role in "confounding the public."

Of course, the controversy that such a work provokes is also huge.

From Catholic and other Christian groups, historians, art historians, and many viewers, the film and novel were slammed, and many even thought that Dan Brown and The Da Vinci Code were distorted—sometimes even Fabricated - history.

However, in many cases, controversy is not a bad thing for a movie, and even controversy represents attraction.

Like Duke said, it's better to be debated than nobody to argue.

"The Da Vinci Code" has sparked controversy and has drawn fierce criticism from many religious conservatives, but the original author and filmmaker are smart enough that these controversies will not touch the bottom line of mainstream society. Can attract quite a lot of people into the theater.

In particular, the huge sales of the original book are enough to guarantee the box office of the film.

In fact, saying that Christ is not a god but a man is not the first creation of The Da Vinci Code. Human beings entered the age of science and began to break the legend of God and began to pursue the truth of "man". If one day Christ really It is not a very strange thing to be completely removed from the "divine" nature by human beings.

It is completely unnecessary to discuss how much of "The Da Vinci Code" is true. From the author to the film, using such content to cause controversy is obviously to gain attention.

In the North American box office rankings released later, "The Da Vinci Code" ended the consecutive championship of "Iron Man", which also proved that the debate can indeed bring benefits. (To be continued ~^~)

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